Lydian is an intern at Harmonix and Electronic Production and Design major at Berklee. She owns multiple ocarinas on which she exclusively plays "Zelda's Lullaby" although she has been known to listen to other songs and enjoy all genres of music.

We’re back from our annual sojourn to the E3 expo in Los Angeles, where we showed three very different Harmonix projects to the thousands in attendance. Joining us to chat about our groundbreaking VR experience, HMX Music VR, is Project Lead Jon Carter. He’s joined by Amplitude Product Manager Annet...
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This week’s a very special show. 20 years ago almost to the day, Harmonix Music Systems, Inc opened its doors for the first time. Those doors may or may not have been on Alex Rigopulos’ parents’ house. Tune in and take a walk down memory lane with Alex and co-founder Eran Egozy as they share their m...
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Rock Band 4 will launch later this year with access to our massive library of over 2,000 songs, which is more than any music game in history. To get you excited about diving back into your own Rock Band library, we’ve asked every member of the Rock Band 4 team to tell us their absolute favorite Rock Band songs of all time. Maybe this series will even highlight some tracks you didn’t even know we have in the library! Every week we’ll bring you a new list from a different team member with a little bit of background info on them.
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Now that Harmonix is approaching its 20th anniversary, it seems appropriate to spotlight one of the studio’s longest standing members, Ryan Lesser. Ryan has been at the company for just about 16 years, where he’s served most of his time as Harmonix Art Director. Ryan is currently one of the driving forces behind the new *Amplitude* reboot as the project’s Creative Lead.
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On the latest podcast we talk with the “Harmonix Playtest Guy,” and pull in a few guests who have worked closely with him to talk about playtesting! What is playtest? Why is it important? How does playtesting make games better? All important questions that we answer IN THIS SHOW. Give it a listen an...
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For years, people have written about the Activision/MTV Games feud, the battle for music game dominance between Guitar Hero and Rock Band. A lot of people have STRONG opinions about which franchise is better or which guitar has the better strum bar, with a somewhat polarizing perspective that, as a passionate gamer, you are obligated to pick a side. That’s difficult for me.
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Daniel has done a million different jobs for Harmonix ranging from QA on FreQuency to project leadership on RB3. Daniel’s most recent title is Product Manager, overseeing the publishing effort for Rock Band 4. He plays guitar in a band called Duck & Cover.